Nina Turner Quotes

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Political courage is not political suicide.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me is a fine example - even if I disagreed with some of their choices.

If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Stand up for what you know is right.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.